Times change, and although I’ve always believed (and still do) that Silverlight is a great technology for building interactive line-of-business applications, the lack of a roadmap for Silverlight is making even my clients hesitate. And yes, I did explain them about Microsoft officially supporting Silverlight 5 until 2021.

To help me make a decision about the direction of the Cookbook, I’ve started a poll in the side-bar of my blog. The important question I ask is whether I should continue with Silverlight, move towards Windows 8 Apps (in XAML/C# of course), or finally make the jump to HTML5/JavaScript. The few votes I’ve received so far tend to lean towards the latter, but I’m not willing to make that jump until more people have voted.

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